On Aug 21, 12:18 pm, ehr...@dk3uz.ampr.org (Edmund H. Ramm) wrote:
In 2d59bfaa-2aa5-4396-bd03-22200df8c...@x21g2000yqa.googlegroups.com Hugh
Aguilar hughaguila...@yahoo.com writes:
[...]
I really recommend that people spend a lot more time writing code,
and a lot less time with all
On Aug 22, 11:12 am, John Bokma j...@castleamber.com wrote:
And my
experience is that a formal study in CS can't compare to home study
unless you're really good and have the time and drive to read formal
books written on CS. And my experience is that most self-educaters don't
have that time.
On Aug 24, 9:24 am, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote:
Anybody worth his salt in his profession has a trail of broken things in
his history.
When I was employed as a Forth programmer, I worked for two brothers.
The younger one told me a funny story about when he was 13 or 14 years
old. He bought
On Aug 24, 4:17 pm, Richard Owlett rowl...@pcnetinc.com wrote:
Hugh Aguilar wrote:
[SNIP ;]
The real problem here is that C, Forth and C++ lack automatic garbage
collection. If I have a program in which I have to worry about memory
leaks (as described above), I would be better off
On Aug 24, 5:16 pm, Paul Rubin no.em...@nospam.invalid wrote:
Anyway, as someone else once said, studying a subject like CS isn't done
by reading. It's done by writing out answers to problem after problem.
Unless you've been doing that, you haven't been studying.
What about using what I
On Aug 21, 10:57 pm, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-
cybersource.com.au wrote:
Anyway, I'm looking forward to hear why overuse of the return stack is a
big reason why people use GCC rather than Forth. (Why GCC? What about
other C compilers?) Me, in my ignorance, I thought it was because C
On Aug 21, 12:32 pm, Alex McDonald b...@rivadpm.com wrote:
Scintilla gets about 2,080,000 results on google; blather gets
about 876,000 results. O Hugh, you pseudo-intellectual you!
with gutter language such as
turd
About 5,910,000 results. It has a long history, even getting a mention
On Aug 22, 3:40 pm, 1001nuits 1001nu...@gmail.com wrote:
Another thing you learn in studying in University is the fact that you can
be wrong, which is quite difficult to accept for self taught people.
Yet another thing you learn in studying in University, is the art of
apple polishing! LOL
On Aug 21, 5:29 am, Alex McDonald b...@rivadpm.com wrote:
On 21 Aug, 06:42, Standish P stnd...@gmail.com wrote:
Admittedly, I am asking a question that would be thought
provoking to those who claim to be experts but these experts are
actually very stingy and mean business people, most
On Aug 18, 6:23 pm, Standish P stnd...@gmail.com wrote:
On Aug 17, 6:38 pm, John Passaniti john.passan...@gmail.com wrote:
You asked if Forth borrowed lists from Lisp. It did not. In Lisp,
lists are constructed with pair of pointers called a cons cell.
That is the most primitive
On Aug 18, 6:13 pm, Standish P stnd...@gmail.com wrote:
Mostly it had a snowball's chance because it was never picked up by
the CS gurus who, AFAIK, never really took a serious look at it.
Its quite possible that the criticism is unfair, but dont you think
that in part some responsibility
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